If you’ve no budget or time for formal PR, there’s another way to raise your profile. Capture the first-hand experiences of the people you work with. Your colleagues, volunteers and people who use your services. Their personal stories will bring to life the value of your organisation. Personal stories might include: why a volunteer is… Read more

Whether they’re your clients or shareholders, colleagues or volunteers, audiences spot insincerity very quickly. If you worry that ‘being yourself’ means letting your guard down and forgetting the party line, don’t. Your audience will warm to you, and your organisation, when they see you speaking from the heart. Forget scripts. Be spontaneous. Tell a story… Read more

(What’s your ‘DOH!’ moment?) For the first quarter of a century of my working life, I saw myself as someone who didn’t take risks. I joined the BBC, intending to be a ‘lifer’. If you’d told me three years ago I’d be running my own business, I’d have laughed. Yes, I was a bit smug…. Read more

Money is tight. Time is short. You’ve no budget for formal PR. But you need to raise your profile. You must persuade people why it’s worth giving up an evening of telly watching to volunteer for you. Why they should bother rattling a collecting tin outside Sainsbury’s. Why Awards for All and Big Lottery Fund… Read more